<p>I only ask because I am legitimately worried about losing my full tuition scholarship to Okla. City University and my $18K-$26K ones to Hendrix, Trinity and Southwestern due to my grades during the fall semester. I had made practically all A's prior to this year but I made a D in AP Calculus AB and a C in AP Spanish and AP Bio. I am at a college prep school and I probably could have gotten an A in those classes if I was at one of the public schools in my area. But the fact of the matter is, I had a 4.43 weighted GPA on a 4 point scale coming into the year and despite my debacles with Calculus, Spanish and Bio still managed a 4.17 weighted GPA for the first semester. The university says that the minimum HS GPA for the Trustee award, or full tuition scholarship, that I is 3.60. I should be good but I'm really nervous. Anyone have any experience with this or know what to expect?</p>
<p>Are colleges asking about an unweighted or weighted GPA? The 3.6 seems to be an unweighted GPA requirement, so I would also calculate your UW GPA. If that drops your GPA, you should talk to the schol and try to get your guidance counselor to explain any extenuating circumstances. The D is probably going to make schools take note at any rate.</p>
<p>Well ****… I have no idea what to do now…</p>
<p>Colleges do not take into account your school so that you are in a difficult school is not likely to matter. You should call and ask the colleges how they look at your GPA in terms of the scholarship. In general, it is your year end grade that will keep you qualified or disqualify you for any admissions decisions or awards, so getting senioritus can be very deadly for you. I don’t think that D is going to be reported to the college, Tell you counselor to hold those mid year reports so that he does not send them out automaticallly as some high schools do for all college kids and the list of colleges. IF you are already accepted, you are not likely to have to report your mid year grades. But EVERY college I know wants those year end grades, so you had better work at getting them up to the point that you do not lose your scholarship eligibility.</p>
<p>Yes, you can lose a scholarship, and even an admissions offer if your grades do not meet certain threshholds. You can lose them once you are in college too, if performance is part of the condition you are getting the money. You had better know exactly what the terms are for the money offered to you and if you want to get and keep it, you have to stick to your end of the terms.</p>
<p>I disagree that the college won’t see the D if it’s a semester grade. Every HS I know will have semester grades on the final transcript they send to colleges after graduation. Some HS classes are only 1 semester. If at graduation your GPA is still above the minimum required for the scholarship you should be good. But I would highly recommend not taking any chances and stepping it up 2nd semester so that when final transcripts are sent, the D and even the Cs look like an aberration which you recognized and stepped up to fix 2nd semester.</p>
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<p>We do not hold mid year grades. Even if they are not automatically sent, the majority of the time, they are still requested by the school.</p>
<p>OP, have you already been admitted to those schools? If so, did you already get scholarship award notifications or are you going off what’s on their websites? If you’ve already been admitted, they likely won’t require mid-year grades, if not they may ask for them. In any case, step it up 2nd semester, that’s the only thing you have control over.</p>
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<p>It it’s like my son’s school, it absolutely will be reported (but as Cpt says, at end of year, not right now – still actionable then, however). Also, 3 Cs or a D or lower at his school are cause for possible rescind of offer – but they give you an opportunity to explain before a committee.</p>
<p>Just to be clear, you’ve been offered these scholarships with your acceptances, correct?</p>
<p>Or are you talking about automatic scholarships?</p>
<p>Either way, you need to address it case by case. Better to address it now than mid-summer and have a rescind.</p>
<p>My kids high schools, public, independent and Catholic, none of them reported the grades except the year end grade at the end of each year with certain exceptions that I will go over, for college purposes. College transcripts were “sanitized” in that no extra infor was on them like quarterly grades, semester grades, final exam grades, comments.</p>
<p>The exceptions to the above were for one semester courses, including those who dropped a course at the end of the semester that is usually a one year course. If the OP were at my son’s school, the only grade that would be on the college ready transcript if he were a junior, would be the year end grade. As a senior, other intervals grades are reported. For those applying early, the grades of the last marking period would be submitted for senior year, in addition to the year end grades of earlier years. Those accepted early do not get any other transcripts sent to those schools unless specifically requested, until year end at which time ONLY THE YEAR END SENIOR GRADES are reported. I’ve personally seen how it was done for all 4 of my kids at their schools so I can vouch for those. For regular admissions, the first semester grades are sent to the schools, as senior grades, but only the grade for the semester. The two quarter breakdowns and the final exam grades, which comprise that first semester grade for each subject are not shown on the transcripts sent to colleges.</p>
<p>The counselors, upon request are very amiable about sending transcipts. My son sent his transcipts each quarter to his colleges because of his strong upward trend which I felt was a big plus for him. He continued it with a 4.0 through senior year which I felt made a strong statement. On the other hand, I didn’t want any school to get a whiff of any transcript of some of my other kids whose grades went up and down like a rollercoaster ride. And I did monitor this, and they were not sent except as necessary, and only the needed information. Only one school asked my one son for his first semester grades (U MIch) when he applied early to them. I wanted no transcripts sent without a specific request and made that very clear to each guidance counselor. </p>
<p>Now, it makes NO difference what my kids’ experiences or anyone else’s happen to be, for the OP. It only matter what his school does and is willing to do, and he needs to find out how it works. It is very important, IMO, that each student and parent, when going through the app process to see exactly what the colleges are going to see from your school as closely as you can get it. My son’s schools all gave out the transcipts sent out as the colleges see it along with the school profile. That is important information one should have. My son’s school would give this transcript junior year during the junior parents/students college meeting so that one can get a good idea of how it looks at that point, and then a copy is sent again early senior year so that there is no mistake about what is and isn’t on that transcript. If your school does not do this, then you should ask.</p>
<p>Ironically, the enormaous, and typical upscale but not top of the line public school in the Midwest where my oldest started out, did the same thing. , including a class ranking that they also gave out.</p>
<p>Contact the school directly. They might or might not care about semester grades, since you’ve already been accepted. They are much more likely to rescind admission with lousy year-end grades. As for the scholarships, you need to know what criteria they use. If you had applied RD, would they have considered these grades in awarding the scholarship, or would the scholarship be based only on 9-11th grade Grades/GPA? Only the individual schools can tell you.</p>
<p>Transcripts grades are recorded in and submitted in the following manner:
the final annualized grades (if your school only grants credit at the end of the school year) </p>
<p>final semester grades (if your school operates on a semester system)
Final trimester grades (if your school operates on a trimester system) or
Final quarter grades (if your school operates on a quarter system)</p>
<p>Since there are schools that annualize grades and will not report a grade until on the transcript until the end of the school year, the college may still ask for some type of mid-year report (this could be the report card for the end of the first term).</p>
<p>If your school operates on a quarter or semester system, then a mid year transcript is expected and most times are automatically sent. In NYS, the fall term ends this year on 1/28 (after january regents grades have been recorded) with the new term beginning on 1/29. At common app colleges, mid year reports are due by 2/15</p>
<p>Just to clarify for those who asked, my scholarships I received were the automatic ones that you can get upon admittance to a college. I’ve already been accepted at all of these places.</p>
<p>You need to call these individual schools and explain what has happened, especially if your counselor has already sent out mid-year reports. Take the intiative now.</p>